There was a change at kdoc that ended breaking compatibility with Python 3.7: str.removesuffix() was introduced on version 3.9. Restore backward compatibility. Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/57be9f77-9a94-4cde-aacb-184cae111506@xxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 27ad33b6b349 ("kernel-doc: Fix symbol matching for dropped suffixes") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py index 831f061f61b8..6273141033a8 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py +++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py @@ -1214,7 +1214,9 @@ class KernelDoc: # Found an export, trim out any special suffixes # for suffix in suffixes: - symbol = symbol.removesuffix(suffix) + # Be backward compatible with Python < 3.9 + if symbol.endswith(suffix): + symbol = symbol[:-len(suffix)] function_set.add(symbol) return True -- 2.50.0
